Mirza Klimenta

Senior Data Scientist

Munich, Germany

Experience

Sep 2023 - Present
1 year 10 months

Senior Data Scientist

Freelancer

Aug 2021 - Aug 2023
2 years 1 month
Munich, Germany

Senior Data Scientist

Bayerischer Rundfunk/.pub

  • research on state-of-the-art developments in Recommender Systems in media (audio-, video- and textual content)
  • implementation of a Recommender System powering ARD Audiothek (one one Germany’s most popular audio-on-demand platforms). The deployed production model has 15% higher precision than the previous
  • NLP projects: entity recognition and redundancy removal
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
1 year 2 months
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Data Scientist

Yewno/Entropy387

  • research on and implementation of graph-based stock-market prediction models
  • pricing engine implementation (achieved a 10% improvement of MAE with respect to the previous model)
Jun 2018 - May 2019
1 year
Rome, Italy

Post-doc

Roma Tre University

  • research on Graph Morphing Algorithms
  • implementation of Graph Drawing Algorithms
Apr 2014 - May 2016
2 years 2 months
Karlsruhe, Germany

Software Engineer

Visteon (former Johnson Controls)

  • (re)implementation of a testing software
  • implementation of Finite State Machines
  • code generation

Summary

While in academia, Mirza worked in the fields of dimension reduction and graph embedding, and his work has been recognized by the scientific community. As a (Senior) Data Scientist, Mirza focuses on Recommender Systems, Pricing Engines and Algorithm Engineering. His most notable work is in the design and implementation of a Recommender System powering ARD Audiothek. He is also a writer of literary fiction.

Languages

Bosnian
Native
English
Advanced
German
Advanced

Education

Nov 2009 - Dec 2013

University of Konstanz

Ph.D. · Computer Science · Konstanz, Germany · Magna Cum Laude

Oct 2005 - Jun 2009

University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology

B.Sc., minor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Computer Science · Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina · 9.96/10, 98/100

Oct 2005 - Jun 2009

University of Buckingham

B.Sc., minor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Computer Science · Buckingham, United Kingdom · 9.96/10, 98/100

Certifications & licenses

Personalized Recommendations at Scale

Sharechat

Designing State of the Art Recommender Systems